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Women's Suffrage: That Adjective Male 1866

by Carrie Chapman Catt and Nettie Rogers Shuler The Averted TriumphThe Negro's HourThat Adjective Male 1866Before the Civil War, there was no movement in the United States to secure…

Senegal Department of State Background

U.S. Department of State Background Note Senegal Index: Geography People History Government and Political Conditions Economy Defense Foreign Relations U.S.-Senegalese Relations GEOGRAPHY…

Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Past

The PastThe debt is paid, The verdict said, The Furies laid, The plague is stayed. All fortunes made; Turn the key and bolt the door, Sweet is death forevermore. Nor haughty hope, nor swart…

Peter V. Ueberroth Biography

Peter V. Ueberrothbusinessman, baseball commissioner, Olympics chairmanBorn: 9/2/1937Birthplace: Evanston, Ill. Having proven his business acumen by running Trans International Airline (1959–…

Schauffler, Robert Haven

Schauffler, Robert Haven[1879-1964](2)Born at Brün, Austria, though of American parentage, on April 8, 1879. He studied at Northwestern University, but took his degree of A.B. from Princeton…

Firelight

Director/Writer:William NicholsonMiramax; R 103 minutesRelease:9/98Cast:Sophie Marceau, Stephen Dillane, Kevin Anderson, Lia Williams, Joss Ackland and Dominique Belcourt Atmosphere is a…

An Epitaph upon —

An Epitaph upon — Enough: and leave the rest to Fame. 'Tis to commend her but to name. Courtship, which living she declin'd, When dead to offer were unkind. Where never any could speak ill,…

William C. Durant Biography

William C. DurantmanufacturerBorn: 12/8/1861Birthplace: Boston, Mass. He quit high school to begin work in his grandfather's Flint, Michigan, lumberyard. By 1885 he had organized the Flint…